Comes with KDE Plasma 5.14.5 and KDE Applications 18.08

Aug 21, 2019 21:18 GMT  ·  By

The Netrunner community announced the release and general availability of the Netrunner 19.08 operating system series, a major update that adds updated components and a new Debian base.

Dubbed "Indigo," the Netrunner 19.08 release is based on the recently announced Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" operating system series and features the KDE Plasma 5.14.5 desktop environment, accompanied by the KDE Applications 18.08 and KDE Frameworks 5.54 open-source software suites built on top of Qt 5.11.3.

Under the hood, the Netrunner 19.08 operating system is powered by the Linux 4.19.0~5 kernel and ships with updated components, including the Mozilla Firefox 60.8.1 ESR web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 60.7.2 email and news client, as well as all the latest security patches from the Debian Stable repositories.

"Switching Firefox to Firefox-ESR allows our users to enjoy a stable long term supported version which gets regular security updates provided by Debians security team," explain the devs. "KDE Plasma 5.14.5 provides a stable and advanced desktop environment that you can tweak to your needs."

Introducing the Indigo theme

With this release, Netrunner not only ships an updated base and newer components, but also a fresh new look and feel called "Indigo." This offers users a new desktop theme with a mix of darker blue and lighter blue shades with classic white, matching KDE Plasma's Breeze icon theme, and a new red colored cursor .

A beautiful wallpaper beautifies the overall look of the new Netrunner desktop, which comes packed with useful and popular apps, including LibreOffice, GIMP, SMplayer, Kdenlive, Krita, InkScape, Skype, Pidgin, Yarock, GMusicBrowser, Yakuake, and Steam. You can download Netrunner 19.08 right now from our free software portal.

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